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Office mobile apps give a familiar user interface optimized for use on your mobile devices. Review and edit documents at work, at home, or anywhere in between.

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Office mobile apps give a familiar user interface optimized for use on your mobile devices. Review and edit documents at work, at home, or anywhere in between.


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Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately

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Manuella E.
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Manuella E.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"#1 spreadsheet"
- it is readily available - it is super intuitive and easy to use - it is packed with a diverse array of features - it is a great way to learn d...
Arasakumar T.
AT
Arasakumar T.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Top Notch productivity Tool for every professional"
There are many features I can count on... The best of the best is power query. I can sit all day and work on power query without a blink of an eye....
Ojaswa D.
OD
Ojaswa D.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"MS Excel: Powerful with some flaws!"
Microsoft Excel excels at handling data analysis, reporting, and visualization. I love how intuitive yet powerful features like PivotTables, formul...

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Ojaswa D.
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Graduate Engineer Trainee
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft Excel excels at handling data analysis, reporting, and visualization. I love how intuitive yet powerful features like PivotTables, formulas, and Power Query are. It also integrates well with other Office apps and offers real-time collaboration via OneDrive. The ability to customize sheets with conditional formatting, charts, and even VBA macros makes it a versatile tool for professionals across domains. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

While Excel is incredibly powerful, it can lag or crash when working with very large datasets. The learning curve is steep for advanced features like Power Pivot or VBA, especially for non-technical users. Also, version compatibility issues sometimes arise when sharing files between older and newer Excel versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Excel helps me manage and analyze large volumes of structured and semi-structured data—from daily reports and KPI dashboards to financial forecasting and inventory control. Its data cleaning and transformation capabilities via Power Query save hours of manual work, and automation through macros/VBA significantly boosts efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shah Rukh K.
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Independent Investor - Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX)
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

Using Microsoft Excel is a daily based routine for me. My day begins with opening my excel sheet, and use number of features like Time Value of Money, Lookups, Pivot tales etc for my day-to-day tasks. It takes less time to analyze a dataset and extract insights to communicate it to shareholders. It's very easy to integrate it with word (For mail merge), Powerpoint and other tools in Microsoft platform and it's easy to implement multiple functions in the same file and different sheets as well, no hard science. There are numerous resources for help but if support is need, customer service is always there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

Although MS Excel is a universal software, I find it hard sometime specially when I work with larger datasets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Excel has solved majority of the corporates' problems, but to me, The Quick Data Analyses tool helped a lot. It has literally reduced hours of work into minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manuella E.
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Digital Transformation Consultant
Online Media
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

- it is readily available

- it is super intuitive and easy to use

- it is packed with a diverse array of features

- it is a great way to learn data analytics and a path to power bi

- it integrates with MS offce suite and beyond with other tools such as power bi

- it allows you to save as CSV and CSV UTF8, thereby allowing foreign language content but also to export to other tools that might not be compatible with it

- and much more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

- it is still human-error prome and ways to reduce it like locking are not as intuitive

- I like that it lets you know who has edited what but collaboration and sharing is not as effective and reliable as it should already be

- the AI-powered analytics is a great addition but has some way to go Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

- data analysis

- accounts

- visualisation for decision-making outside of data analysis (e.g., in day-to-day life)

- allows me to see things as they are rather than guessing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Devyanish K.
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Consultant - Tech Consulting
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

I appreciate how versatile Microsoft Excel is. Its vast array of features allows for detailed data analysis, complex calculations, and dynamic visualizations. It's my go-to tool for tasks ranging from simple number crunching to advanced financial modeling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

While Excel is powerful, its complexity can be overwhelming at times, especially for users who aren't familiar with advanced features like macros or complex formulas. Additionally, Excel's performance can degrade with very large datasets, making it harder to work efficiently in such cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Excel is a critical tool that helps me solve the problem of managing and analyzing large volumes of data efficiently, while also facilitating collaboration and presentation. This ultimately saves time, improves accuracy, and helps me deliver better insights and outcomes for my clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sarah K.
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Child Nutrition Technician
Education Management
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

I love that I can use it so easily. It allows me to implement so many different things with the program. I don't have to use the customer support option, but when I do, it is easy to find the answers to my questions as needed. I use it daily and it integrates with all the needs of my daily tasks. There are so many features, sometimes I get lost! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

It is sometimes confusing trying to figure out which feature will be easiest to use, and there are some features that are still confusing, even with the customer support options that are available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves most of my problems! :) It allows me to use formulas, and keep track of all kinds of information. I am also able to create tables and charts/graphs as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dharmdeep s.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

I have been using Microsoft Excel for the last 9 years, The best part of excel is one can manage complex data using some basic formulas which makes life easier. It has extensive features like lookup formulas, power queries, and pivots. Excel is very much useful for both personal and professional work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

Basic excel is easy but the advanced excel one can find significantly complex for the people coming form a non technical background. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

It can Manage large volumes of data in a structured and accessible way cespecially when dealing with multiple data sources or complex datasets.

Also, it allows to organize data into rows, columns, and sheets, making it easy to store, sort, and filter information. This has been invaluable for tasks like budgeting, inventory management, and project tracking. The basic excel is easy to setup for new commerce and data entry operators. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chandra M.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft excel is stands out for its versatility and power.I appreciate how its handles everything from simple data entry and basic calculations to complex financial model, pivot tables and macros.Its wide range of functions and formula options make it indispensable for analyzing large data sets quickly and accurately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

While excel is incredibly powerful, it can become overwhelming for beginners. When working with large data sets, performance can lag or file can become unstable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft excel helps me organize, analyze and visualize data efficiently. Whether its tracking expenses, building dashboards, managing project timelines, analyzing large data sets, excel simplifies complex tasks with powerful tools like formulas, pivot tables and charts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kushagra G.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

Being an Excel user for decades now and using it in mostly everwhere. Excel became a life saviour for those who works with data regularly. As a employ with own business aside it helps me to cop up with both the datas. And makes it super easy to work with . The sorting, importing and integration with other softwares make it the best for data handeling. I used to integrate it with decisionrules, mailchimp and with many other softwares and the whole functioning is so smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

There is nothing to dislike about as its an important software to manage things and data, and if i have to find one then it will be it regualar updation of his interface which sometimes make it little hard and messy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

Couldnt find any problem for specific, it been 8 years now working in excel and it only benefiting me and making day to day work more easier as it helps me with my data, not data, with my huge chunks of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akash R.
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Business Planning Analyst
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

Excel is very useful for storing small amounts of data. We can save data in many formats, such as CSV and others. I have been using it for the last 4 years, and it is easy to manipulate data using functions like Vlookup, Pivo Table & Power Query. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

What I dislike about Excel is that it has a limited number of rows and columns. We can't store large amounts of data in it otherwise it starts to lag and doesn't work properly. It is not suitable for storing big data, as large datasets come with big file sizes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used many other platforms for analyzing data, but I usually pull the output into Excel and Spreadsheets & share the file with stakeholders as a report. Most of the time, I use Excel to create reports, utilizing multiple sheets to store multiple tables and using lookup functions to reference the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eliyas T.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft excel is the best application ever that i have used on my whole career and its a must have app and i used it everyday for all my works and it can be integrated with so many applications and and its easy to use and the user interface is attractive and easy to understand and when there is a support that we require from the Microsoft teams they are always supportive and reply on time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Excel?

Microsoft has updated the new user interface, and it is changed from the previous version and the previous one was classic and best for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Excel solving and how is that benefiting you?

it has solved most my problems that use on paper base and it has benefited me on all the works that i work specially payroll, tax, mail merging for bulk outgoing letters, audit, attendance tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.